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Bull pine trees can have a bunch of knots to make it tough to split , some of it can have a twist to the wood grain which doesn't make it split or make planks or lumber with a saw mill .

Ashen or poplar trees are easy to split but make a lot of ash with very little heat or btu's cottonwood burns hot and can burn the pine pitch out of your chimney to help prevent chimney fires .
These are the only ones I've personally used for firewood .


Around here the cypress sometimes grows with that twist. Cypress is highly rot resistant but a plain straight grained wood with few features. I saw the wood from one of those twisted cypress, fantastic figure throughout! Talking the kind of figure seen on multi thousand dollar gun stocks or high end furniture.

I located about a dozen of these trees. They are on public land or waters and as tempting as it is, I won't poach one. If one happens to fall in a storm I would probably be unable to avoid a little whittling for lathe turning wood. It would even make a fantastic pool cue if it was cored.

Any idea what causes the twist to begin with? I think maybe a storm and limbs and greenery that make the tree want to spin.

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Why some pine trees spin ? I haven't a clue but a friend of mine who builds log cabins won't use a twisted grained log , just like farmers & ranchers won't use wood fence posts that are split or cracked as they claim they'll rot faster than others .

The bark even shows it's got a twist to it rather often .

it's basically the same as humans, both nature and nurture. genetics and environment. i used to do manual logging in a hilly district here in sweden, and twisty pines could be seen closest to the hill/mountain tops where they were most exposed to harsh conditions. of course there are bad seeds, too.

so same as humans. some are twisted because they are a bad seed, some because of bad environment
 
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